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Dear JDisc friends, today’s build comes with a new major feature. We are going to collect information about the SIM card and the corresponding mobile interface. Whenever a mobile connection is active, we collect the following information for the mobile interfaces: modem model modem manufacturer connection class (GSM, UTMS, LTE, ..) the SIM card’s phone…

Dear JDisc friends, in order to simplify the Windows installation process, most hardware vendors provide the OEM license key within the computer’s BIOS. We have enhanced our device discovery in order to retrieve the stored license key. We store the license key attached to the BIOS firmware object. The license key is also available within…

Dear JDisc friends, today, I would like to cover a topic which has been causing questions and problems for quite a while. Today, we are talking about how to configure Windows accounts in order to scan Windows servers and clients. JDisc Discovery always tries to minimize login attempts with username/password pairs. Otherwise intrusion detection systems…

Dear JDisc friends, as you may be also aware, virtualizations have come a long way to help isolating different processes running on a single machine. Two of the most well known ones are LXC and Docker containers. From build 3360, Inventory is equipped with LXC and Docker discovery feature where the status, IP addresses…

Dear JDisc friends, nowadays, virtual machines can be migrated with nearly no downtime from one physical server to another. But do you really know what that implies to your license compliance? Most users are not aware of license implications caused by moving VMs around. For instance, Microsoft only allows the migration of servers with volume…

Dear JDisc Friends, small plates can be very tasty. The same is true for JDisc Discovery enhancements. You do not need to add the new big killer feature. Sometimes, smaller and even easy to implement features can add a lot of value to our product. The feature I am presenting now is an example for such…

Dear JDisc friends, we have added some more nice features during the last couple of weeks. Besides adding new devices, we have implemented the discovery of virtual machines which are currently offline. This feature is implemented for VMware and Citrix XenServer first. Over time, we will add this feature for the remaining virtualization technologies. We…

Dear JDisc friends, besides adding new devices, we are always working on larger enhancements and changes. This time we are working on virtualization. So far, JDisc Discovery was able to identify a variety of different virtualization technologies. It was detecting the virtual machines running on physical servers and in many cases their clustering. We started…

Dear JDisc friends, when scanning your IT environment, you often want to exclude devices that you are not interested in or which you don’t want to treat with discovery protocols such as SSH, telnet, or WMI. From the beginning, there were two kind of device filters: – a filter which excludes devices based on their…

Dear JDisc friends, in the past, we encountered the situation at some customers where devices did not respond to ping (e.g. devices within a DMZ). Devices that do not respond to ping have not been easy to deal with in JDisc Discovery. They have been invisible for most discovery scans. Only a manual scan helped…